The PNG extension is a prominent image file type compliant with a variety of operating systems, Web browsers and devices. The format was primarily created for transferring photos over the Web, as its ...

Tom Boutell is a modest guy. Considering that one of his most notable achievements is so much a part of the background of the web, figuratively and literally, maybe that character trait makes sense.

If you work with images a lot, you probably already know that there are different types of image formats, of which .png and .jpg/jpeg are the most common. Moreover, these two image formats offer ...

In late 1994, controversy was brewing over royalties being imposed on GIFs due to the Lempel–Ziv–Welch (LZW) data compression technique used to underpin this image format. Unisys, which had patented ...

When working with images, certain file formats may be better than others, depending on what your goals are. This infographic showcases the best uses for JPEG, GIF, and PNG file formats. The graphic ...

DeviantART gives photographers, painters and other artists a place to showcase their gallery of work. DeviantART accepts images in several categories, such as JPEG, GIF or PNG. JPEG is one of the most ...

Image file formats are plentiful, from PNG and JPEG to the dreaded WebP. But what happens when you want to convert something from one file type to another? The conversion process was once an arduous ...